＂Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch’s How to disappear explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today’s

In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools o

From the bestselling author of Gratitude and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks’s passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creati

以嶄新的視角帶我們認識當代社會的誕生──對「精準」的追求 少了它，這世界就不會有鏡子、鏡頭、槍 更不用說什麼基因剪接、微晶片和強子對撞機了！   《天才、瘋子、大字典家》暢銷作家賽門‧溫契斯特Simon W

“Brimming with ideas. . . . The Origins of Creativity approach[es] creativity scientifically but sensitively, feeling its roots without pulling them out.”—Economist

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s dive

當代神經科學大師Antonio Damasio解析文化出現與發展的緣由   文化──人類世界最複雜而迷人的秩序──如何出現？常見的解釋可能會主張是來自人類超凡的智能、複雜而特別的語言能力，或者是因為人類特殊的社群

Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts, in his inimitable voice, trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on

普立茲獎得主、《萬病之王》作者最新力作，從小基因解密人類社會最奧妙的一道謎題。 1856年，在摩拉維亞一處偏僻的奧古斯丁修道院，有位修士偶然發現了遺傳這門學問。遺傳與達爾文的演化論相關，並在1940年代與

HBO電影4/24上映，由歐普拉領銜主演   她的本名是海莉耶塔．拉克斯，但科學家都稱呼她「海拉」（HeLa）。   她是美國南方的貧窮菸農，罹患子宮頸癌後，腫瘤細胞被醫師取走，成為醫學史

A Dog A Day began life with a Facebook post in 2013: ‘My name is Sally Muir and this is a new gallery where I will add a dog drawing/painting every day, adding up to a massive 365 day dogfes

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If

Presents a meditation and portrait of the experience of dying that elucidates the decisions that can be made to allow each person an understanding of death, as well as his or her own choice of death.

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for grante

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposi

記憶研究最重要的案例

New York Times Bestseller Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrousl

這本書，是為那些渴望離開現實的人所寫的 她從小跟在攝影師父親身邊學會靜觀等待 她青春期時房間掛的不是搖滾明星而是蒼鷹海報 直到有一天，她失去摯愛父親後，決定遠走野地與一隻鷹共同生活七年&hel

2010年紐約時報年度好書2011年普立茲獎非文學類得主2011年英國衛報新人獎得主出版至今持續盤踞紐約時報暢銷排行榜中 本書是精彩而深刻人性化的癌症「傳記」，從數千年前首篇記載的文獻，到二十

＂An empirical, exhaustive, and entertaining look at the body and its functions, in the vein of the author’s stories and viral video series for The Atlantic on sleep, aging, diet, and more, examining

Discusses the natural history of domesticated felines and how they achieved global domination, despite offering humans no practical benefits, through visiting researchers who discovered feline bones i

First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum

An authoritative survey of current groundbreaking research into the human mind reveals how top international laboratories have innovated unique technologies for recording profound mental capabilities

The Sick Rose is a visual tour through the golden age of medical illustration. The nineteenth century experienced an explosion of epidemics such as cholera and diphtheria, driven by industrializat

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius” and a “renegade thinker,” even likening him

A shorter, more accessible edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features thirty-eight new full-color illustrations, the elimination of some of the more technical ma

為什麼現代社會中的財富和權力的分配，是以今天這種面貌呈現，而非其他形式？為何越過大洋進行殺戮、征服和滅絕的，不是美洲、非洲的土著，而是歐洲人和亞洲人？各族群間的生活差異為何如此之大？對於現代人類、

A Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist and the author of two New York Times best-sellers weaves together more than 20 letters that highlight his childhood and career and why he became a biologist in the h